How to read a book

Summary of the book by Mortimer J. Adler Structure Three steps in reading Elementary reading Inspectional reading Analytical reading Syntopical reading Three steps in reading Elementary reading Ready yourself to understand the grammar and vocabulary level used in the book All books depend on the basic vocabulary and grammar mastery…

Creating jokes by violating Grice’s maxims

Without laughter, life would be a mistake. Laughing is inherent and essential in a human’s life. Humans, as a social animal, consider the laughter as an important signifier of acceptance. When the social group, one belongs to, laughs by the joke one made, the person considers the laughter signifies…

Euphemisms and Political correctness - the lies we use to shun reality

“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs anymore, it's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.” (Pratchett, 1996)Even the simplest of tools, when abused, produce grave results. Euphemism is not a simple tool; it is one of the most powerful weapons in the linguistic arsenal. Political correctness, in…

God ??

Product of a night long discussion between a theist and an atheist................. I really admire the talent of my friend Varatharaj.. Within minutes after the mild quarrel, he summarized the argument into a simple but elegant poetical form..... His work... கடவுள் படைத்த உலகமோ? உலகம் படைத்த…

Asteroids game using Python - Pygame module

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games, selling 70,000 arcade cabinets.Asteroids uses a vector display and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen…

An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python - Assignment Programs

These are the assignment programs submitted in "An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python" course conducted by Professors Joe Warren, Scott Rixner, John Greiner, Stephen Wong of Rice University in Coursera. Professor Scott Rixner has built this ingenious website Codeskulptor which intreprets the Python programs and runs them online.. He…

Pong Game using Python - pygame module

Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it,Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to…

Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock

Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is a five-gesture expansion of the classic selection method game rock-paper-scissors. It operates on the same basic principle, but includes two additional weapons: the lizard (formed by the hand as a sock-puppet-like mouth) and Spock (formed by the Star TrekVulcan salute). This reduces the chances of a round ending…